If you’re in this business and you are scared, then you better do something else.

You have to feel confident. If you don’t, then you’re going to be hesitant and defensive, and there’ll be a lot of things working against you.

Realists do not fear the results of their study.

There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.

If you want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.

Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it.

I can promise you that when I go to Sacramento, I will pump up Sacramento.

As a kid, I used to see how Sachin Tendulkar used to win matches under pressure for India in Sharjah or other places. So I was always keen to repeat the same in similar situations. I don’t take pressure on myself when I am in the middle. I love pressure, and I always believe that pressure makes you more focused.

Talent without working hard is nothing.

Entrepreneurs and their small enterprises are responsible for almost all the economic growth in the United States.

Do I have chocolate chip cookies? Yes, I do. Do I have mint chocolate chip milkshakes? Yes, I do. I love them. They are fantastic. But when I have them, they’re worth it. I earned them. I did something. I worked out super hard. I stayed clean on food.

The U. S. Constitution doesn’t guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.

One must work and dare if one really wants to live.

What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.

So I’ve seen life as one long learning process. And if I see – you know, if I fly on somebody else’s airline and find the experience is not a pleasant one, which it wasn’t in – 21 years ago, then I’d think, well, you know, maybe I can create the kind of airline that I’d like to fly on.

When your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve.

I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.

Remember your dreams and fight for them. You must know what you want from life. There is just one thing that makes your dream become impossible: the fear of failure.

The coward wretch whose hand and heart Can bear to torture aught below, Is ever first to quail and start From the slightest pain or equal foe.

Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn’t be done.

Nothing succeeds like success. Get a little success, and then just get a little more.

It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it can never be reached.

Do all you can to make your dreams come true.

To keep the business going, you gotta keep it boomin‘.

If you want to gather honey, don’t kick over the beehive.

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.

You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.

I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn’t know how to get along without it.

I’m touring the world, not doing nothing against the law, getting money to feed my family. I got employees that have felonies, and they can’t get jobs. They work for me.

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

Quitting is the easiest thing to do.

There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to any fear.

If I’m going to get you to do stuff, I need to lead you. I can’t just order you to do it.

I’ve got incredible support from my wife and family and people around me. I’ve got great people around me who handle anything on the outside, business-wise, who help free me up to create in my job.

Sometimes people make it seem like you have to have certain prerequisites or a crazy life story in order to be successful in this world. But the truth is you really don’t.

My dad was like a stage mother he always pushed me to do what I wanted.

You don’t have to be scared of me, because I am loyal. Why are people so scared of creative ideas and so scared of truth? All I want to do is do good.

You must take the compromise to win, or else nothing. That means: you race or you do not.

I have only one counsel for you – be master.

Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it.

In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

Don’t worry about motivation. Motivation is fickle. It comes and goes. It is unreliable – and when you are counting on motivation to get your goals accomplished, you will likely fall short.

If you’re not ready for everything, you’re not ready for anything.

I write for the same reason I breathe – because if I didn’t, I would die.

Nixon represents that dark, venal and incurably violent side of the American character almost every other country in the world has learned to fear and despise.

People think that at the top there isn’t much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My message is that there is tons of room at the top.

I am a child but I have to think and act like a woman, this business forces you to.

For most of us, relationship with another is based on dependence, either economic or psychological. This dependence creates fear, breeds in us possessiveness, results in friction, suspicion, frustration.

If people take anything from my music, it should be motivation to know that anything is possible as long as you keep working at it and don’t back down.

Never give a sword to a man who can’t dance.

What’s amazing is, if young people understood how doing well in school makes the rest of their life so much interesting, they would be more motivated. It’s so far away in time that they can’t appreciate what it means for their whole life.

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

If you lose a big fight, it will worry you all of your life. It will plague you – until you get your revenge.

We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.

I’m not a macroeconomics person.

You must never be satisfied with losing. You must get angry, terribly angry, about losing. But the mark of the good loser is that he takes his anger out on himself and not his victorious opponents or on his teammates.

Dread, which is closely related to fear, steals the ability to enjoy ordinary life and makes people anxious about the future. It keeps them from looking forward to the next day, the next month, or the next decade.

If I wish to compose or write or pray or preach well, I must be angry. Then all the blood in my veins is stirred, and my understanding is sharpened.

As a vulnerability researcher, the greatest barrier I see is our low tolerance for vulnerability. We’re almost afraid to be happy. We feel like it’s inviting disaster.

If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn’t need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.